 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 pages
...part, was in a very improved state of cultivation. Julian might expect that a conqueror, who possessed the two forcible instruments of persuasion, steel...property ; or by the rigour of an arbitrary government, which consults the public safety without submitting to their inclinations the liberty of choice. On... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 pages
...the inhabitants deserted the open villages, and took shelter in the fortified towns ; the cattle were driven away ; the grass and ripe corn were consumed...the melancholy face of a SMOKING AND NAKED DESERT." p But " the second city of the province, large, populous, and well fortified," in vain resisted a fierce... | |
 | Alexander Keith - Apologetics - 1836 - 294 pages
...the inhabitants deserted the open villages and took shelter in the fortified towns ; the cattle were driven away; the grass and ripe corn were consumed...which interrupted the march of Julian, he beheld the * Gibbon, vol. ic vui. p. 212. J Ib. vol. ii. c. xxiv. "i. 300. 18 melancholy face of a SMOKING AND... | |
 | Robert Mignan - 1839 - 328 pages
...the inhabitants deserted the open villages and took shelter in the fortified towns ; the cattle were driven away ; the grass and ripe corn were consumed...the melancholy face of a smoking and naked desert *." The mirage, with its beautiful phantasmagoria of landscape and figures, amused our march this day,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1839 - 296 pages
...shelter in the fortified towns ; the cattle were driven away; the grass and ripe corn were confumed with FIRE ; and as soon as the flames had subsided...which interrupted the march of Julian, he beheld the * Gibbon, vol. ic viii. p. 212. f Ib. rol. ii. c. aiv. n. 369. melancholy face of a SMOKING AND NAKED... | |
 | Egypt - 1841 - 214 pages
...took shelter in the fortified towns; the cattle were driven away ; the grass and corn were consumed by fire ; and as soon as the flames had subsided which interrupted the march of Julian, the vindictive conqueror beheld the melancholy face of a smoking and naked desert. Perisabor, the second... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1844 - 372 pages
...shelter in the fortified towns ; the cattle were driven away ; the grass and corn were consumed by fire ; and as soon as the flames had subsided which interrupted the march of Julian, the vindictive conqueror beheld the melancholy face of a smoking and. naked desert. Perisabor, the... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1850 - 346 pages
...shelter in the fortified towns ; the cattle were driven away ; the grass and corn were consumed by fire ; and as soon as the flames had subsided which interrupted the march of Julian, the vindictive conqueror beheld the melancholy face of a smoking and naked desert. Perisabor, the second... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 pages
...unskilful husbandmen. Voyages de Niebuhr, torn. ii. p. 279, 285. AD 363. RETREAT OF THE ROMAN AKMY. 209 towns ; the cattle was driven away ; the grass and...property ; or by the rigour of an arbitrary government, which consults the public safety without submitting to their inclinations the liberty of choice. On... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1859 - 730 pages
...the fortified towns; the cattle were driven away; the grass and ripe corn were consumed with FISE; and as soon as the flames had subsided which interrupted...beheld the melancholy face of a SMOKING AND NAKED DESERT."8 But "the second city of the province, large, populous, and well fortified," in vain resisted... | |
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Wherever they moved, the inhabitants deserted the open villages and took shelter in the fortified towns; the cattle was driven away; the grass and ripe corn were consumed with fire; and, as soon as the flames had subsided which interrupted the march of... 
